stephen moore, senior economics writer at the "wall street journal" and necessary washington. joining must new york is todd showen berger from land capital. we showed a poll most americans want people to compromise. no purr surprise there why can't republicans and democrats get their act together and compromise? >> well, i think this previous discussion we were just having is kind of an example of what's happening in congress is, you know, democrats, liberal democrats really believe that taxes don't matter around they can continue to raise them as high as they want. i happen to think they are critically important. i think it is insane to be raising taxes on investment and businesses right now i think it will make america less competitive and destroy jobs in this country, but the point is you've got a big philosophical difference of opinion on these things and they are not small matters but big meters of about the direction of our country for the next 10, 20 years. look, it's one thing to get a compromise and an agreement but an agreement that laid the country in the wrong dire